grandiloquent

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. adjective lofty in style
  2. adjective puffed up with vanity; ; ; ; - Newsweek

Etymology

From Middle French grandiloquent, from Latin grandiloquus, from grandis (“great, full”) + loquēns, present participle of loquor (“to speak”). Compare eloquent.

In classic literature

Synonyms

magniloquent, tall

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